I.—Inventories of Plate, Vestments, &amp;c., belonging to the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Mary of Lincoln

Christopher Wordsworth

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I.—Inventories of Plate, Vestments, &c., belonging to the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Mary of Lincoln

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Christopher Wordsworth

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The task of transcribing and completing Mr. Wickenden's and Mr. Bradshaw's Inventory of the contents of the Chapter Muniment Room at Lincoln has recently brought under my notice certain original inventories of plate and jewels which formerly belonged to that church.

Three of these with two or three subsidiary documents have already appeared in the Monasticon, but not satisfactorily edited.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , 1892 , pp. 1 - 82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900011206 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1892

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^{page 2 note a} By the kindness of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln the proofs have been collated with the original MSS. by Mr. W. H. St. John Hope.

^{page 3 note a} 30 April, 696.

^{page 3 note b} 7 May, 1092.

^{page 3 note c} 17 Nov. 1200.

^{page 3 note d} 16 Nov. 1240.

^{page 3 note e} 25 Aug. 1282.

^{page 3 note f} There are five saints of this name in Martyrologium Romanum (Greg. XIII.) Two of these, both martyred at Rome (6 June, 26 Aug.), are noted in the “Martyloge after the use of the Chirche of Salysbury as it is redde in Syon.” I owe to Miss O. J. Doratea Weale the information that relics of St. White rest in the north transept of the parish church of Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, and that Sir William Palmer considered them to be those of St. Candida, V.M., of Italy.

^{page 5 note a} Written in margin.

^{page 6 note a} W. Hampton is not named in the index of prebendaries of Lincoln edited by Duffus Hardy.

^{page 6 note b} I have not been able to discover this mark in any other place in this MS. in its present state.

^{page 8 note a} John de Shepey was dean from 1388 to 1412.

^{page 6 note b} Roger de Mortivallis was dean of Lincoln from 1310 to 1315.

^{page 9 note a} Before 1399.

^{page 10 note a} Prebendary of Lincoln, and treasurer from 1384 to 1405.

^{page 10 note b} John de Ronceby was prebendary of Lincoln 1370 to 1388.

^{page 10 note c} Philip Repington, cardinal, bishop of Lincoln 1405—19.

^{page 12 note a} This word comes so close to the end of the line, which is fairly perfect in this instance, that, it may be doubted whether the name was ever entered, as it would naturally have been written below.

^{page 13 note a} Vol. vi. pp. 1278—1286.

^{page 13 note b} William of Wykeham was archdeacon of Lincoln from 1363 to 1367, when he was made bishop of Winchester.

^{page 14 note a} John Gynewell was bishop of Lincoln from 1347 to 1362.

^{page 14 note b} Charles Bothe was bishop of Hereford from 1516 to 1535. and archdeacon of Buckingham from 1505 to 1516.

^{page 14 note c} John de Welbourn was treasurer from 1351 to 1381.

^{page 15 note a} Thomas de Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford, died at Monte Fiascone, 25 Aug. 1282. In 1305 Edward I. desired Clement V. to canonize him, but it was not done till about 1320. See Wilkins, , Concilia, ii. 283, 651Google Scholar.

^{page 16 note a} Robert Mason, LL.D., precentor (and afterwards also archdeacon of Northumberland) 1482—1493.

^{page 17 note a} ? about 1350.

^{page 17 note b} After 1500.

^{page 18 note a} William Alnewick was bishop of Norwich from 1426 to 1436, when he was translated to Lincoln. He died in 1449.

^{page 18 note b} Thomas Beaufort.

^{page 18 note c} John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, died 1399.

^{page 18 note d} John de Bokingham was bishop of Lincoln from 1362 to 1397, when he resigned.

^{page 20 note a} John Chedworth was bishop of Lincoln from 1452 to 1471.

^{page 21 note a} Azure, two chevrons or between three roses argent were the arms of John Russell, bishop of Lincoln, 1480—1494. The “falcon gold syttyng opon a rose “was probably the eagle of St. John, the whole being a rebus on the bishop's name. W. H. St. J. H.

^{page 21 note b} Or ? “celluj”. Dugdale has “celui.”

^{page 21 note c} Philip Repingdon, consecrated bishop of Lincoln 1405, made a cardinal 1408. Resigned his see 1419, and died in 1434.

^{page 21 note d} Marmaduke Lumley was translated from Carlisle to Lincoln in 1450, and died intestate in the same year.

^{page 21 note e} Probably of Leicester St. Margarets 1441—1445.

^{page 21 note f} Alexander Prowet, LL.B., precentor 1448—1471.

^{page 23 note a} These letters were intended, no doubt, to distinguish the contents of the three vessels: “oleum sanctum catechuminorum “for the font, for baptism, consecration of church and altar, ordination of priest or king; the chrisma likewise for the font, for baptism, confirmation, consecration of bishop, paten and chalice, and blessing of bells; and “oleum infirmorum “for extreme unction. See Maskell, Mon. Bit. 1, p. eclxx. Henderson's York Pontifical, pp. 252—264. Also p. 48 n.^c below.

^{page 23 note b} William Skelton was treasurer from 1477 to 1501.

^{page 23 note c} The mitres are entered in the second hand.

^{page 24 note a} All these vestments adorned with Katharine wheels were doubtless the gift of Katharine Roet, wife of John of Gaunt, and therefore Duchess of Lancaster. Her arms were Gules, three Katharine wheels or. W. H. St. J. H.

^{page 24 note b} John Waynflete was prebendary of Louth, 1455—1481.

^{page 24 note c} John Southam, LL.D. was prebendary of Asgarby, 1389; of Dunham, 1401; Archd. of Oxon. 1404; preb. of North Kelsey, 1408; of Welton Beckhall, 1416; and of Sanctae Crucis, 1420. He died in 1440.

^{page 24 note d} He held also the deanery of Wells from 1425 till his death in 1446.

^{page 25 note a} A falcon holding a fetterlock in his beak was one of the badges of John of Gaunt.— W. H, St. J. H.

^{page 25 note b} From 1406 to 1416. John Wakering was also bishop of Norwich from 1416 to 1425.

^{page 25 note c} John Gynwell, bishop of Lincoln, 1347—1362.

^{page 25 note d} So among capae rubeae at York (in 1509 ?) is “una capa de tissue pro episcopo puerorum.” Dugd. Monast. vi. 1208.

^{page 25 note e} John de Shepey was dean from 1388 to 1411 or 1412.

^{page 25 note f} Richard Beverley, prebendary of Liddington, 1371—1390.

^{page 25 note g} “William Thornton, prebendary of Stow Longa, d. 1312.

^{page 25 note h} Gilbert de Eyvill or Ivell was treasurer from 1301 to 1307.

^{page 25 note i} Richard de Gravesend was bishop of Lincoln from 1258 to 1280.

^{page 25 note j} Thomas Northwode was made treasurer in 1329 and archdeacon of Huntingdon in 1331. He died 1349.

^{page 26 note a} Probably Robert Forth, prebendary of Bedford Minor and of Decem Librarum in 1526.

^{page 26 note b} “Stud.” Dugdale.

^{page 26 note c} John Colynson became prebendary of Louth in 1455, archdeacon of Stow 1460, of Bedford in 1468, and of Northampton 1471. He died in 1481.

^{page 26 note d} Morton died in 1500.

^{page 26 note e} “Stars.” Dugdale.

^{page 26 note f} John Rudyng was archdeacon of Lincoln 1471 to 1481.

^{page 26 note g} Philip Lepeyate was subdean, 1478—1488.

^{page 26 note h} Circa 1484.

^{page 27 note a} Thomas Alford was installed prebendary of St. Mary Crackpole in 1466. He exchanged it for Carlton Paynel in 1471 and died in 1485.

^{page 27 note b} William Skelton was treasurer, 1477—1501.

^{page 27 note c} William Smith was bishop of Lincoln 1496 to 1514. His arms, three roses, appear on his seal of dignity.

^{page 27 note d} Probably Henry Cranebull, prebendary of Southwell 1499—1507.

^{page 27 note e} Geoffry Simeon was dean from 1506 to 1508.

^{page 27 note f} 1351—1381.

^{page 28 note a} 1362—1397.

^{page 28 note b} Query William Norton, prebendary of Bedford Minor, 1402—1404.

^{page 28 note c} Query John Warsopp, prebendary of Louth, 1361—1386.

^{page 28 note d} 1404—1440.

^{page 28 note e} Died 1414.

^{page 28 note f} John Mack worth was dean of Lincoln from 1412 to 1451.

^{page 28 note g} John de Stretely, dean in 1316 and until after 1366.

^{page 28 note h} Roger de Mortivailis was archdeacon of Huntingdon in 1288 and until 1295, when he became archdeacon of Leicester. He was dean of Lincoln from 1310 to 1315, and bishop of Salisbury from 1315 to 1330.

^{page 28 note i} Richard de Chesterfield was prebendary of Norton Episcopi from 1363 to 1404.

^{page 29 note a} Richard de Ravenser, archdeacon of Lincoln, 1368—1386.

^{page 29 note b} John de Grandison, prebendary of Stoke 1322; bishop of Exeter 1327. John de Grandison, prebendary of Heydonr 1317, died 1328. Duffus Hardy however gives no archdeacon of this name and makes Cardinal Gailhardus de Mota, archdeacon of Oxon. from 1313 to 1345. William Grandison, the bishop's brother, was archdeacon of Exon. for a few months in 1330. The “sheld paled” of Grandison was paly of six argent and azure, on a bend gules three eaglets (or some such difference) or.

^{page 29 note c} John Crosby. LL.D. was treasurer, 1448—1477.

^{page 29 note d} George Fitzhugh held the deanery from 1483 to 1505.

^{page 29 note e} John Reed was vicar in 1462, and subchanter from 1480 to 1484.

^{page 29 note f} William Gisburne, prebendary of Crackpole St. Mary, 1483—1489, and of Decem Librarum, 1489—1493.

^{page 29 note g} 1484—1499.

^{page 30 note a} Nicholas Wymbyssh was prebendary of Welton Ryval about 1425; of Ketton, 1427. He was archdeacon of Nottingham and canon of York, and died in 1460. Robert. Wymbyssh, prebendary of Bedford Minor 1449; nominated to Scamelsby 1467. Carlton Paynel, 1471. Promoted to Welton Westhall, with the subdeanery, the same year. Died 1478.

^{page 30 note b} 1436—1449.

^{page 30 note c} John Cutler was treasurer, 1501—1508.

^{page 30 note e} In 1498.

^{page 30 note f} In 1494.

^{page 31 note a} See note c page 24.

^{page 31 note b} 1351—1381.

^{page 31 note c} Peter Dalton was treasurer 1384—1405.

^{page 32 note a} See note^c page 21.

^{page 32 note b} John Breton was prebendary of Sutton cum Buckingham 1448—1465.

^{page 32 note c} 1452—1471.

^{page 32 note d} 1480—1494.

^{page 32 note e} John Coke, LL.D., was archdeacon of Lincoln from 1481 to 1494.

^{page 32 note f} Richard Smyth was vicar of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, from 1487 to 1504. He founded a chantry of St. Helen in his parish church in 1504.

^{page 33 note a} Probably given by Bishop Atwater, see next page.

^{page 33 note b} John de Waltham, bishop of Salisbury, 1388—1395.

^{page 33 note c} See note^c on page 31.

^{page 33 note d} Adam de Lymburgh, prebendary of Sexaginta Solidorum and perhaps of Leicester St. Margaret about 1339—50.

^{page 33 note e} “Robert de Kadeney,” omitted in the list of precentors by Le Neve and Hardy, is duly noted by J. F. Wickenden. He was prebendary of Nassington and precentor about 1248.

^{page 34 note a} Robert Thornton, LL.D., was archdeacon of Bedford, 1439—1450. The morse of the cope given by him bore his rebus, a thorn on a tun.

^{page 34 note b} John Chedworth, bishop of Lincoln, 1452—1471.

^{page 34 note c} About 1460.

^{page 34 note d} Robert Ayscough was prebendary of Sutton cum Buckingham, 1436—1438, and subdean, 1458—1470.

^{page 34 note e} 1477—1501.

^{page 34 note f} 1506—1528.

^{page 35 note g} 1514—1521.

^{page 35 note a} William be Thornaco was archdeacon of Stow in 1213. In 1218 he became archdeacon of Lincoln, and dean in 1223. He was suspended in 1239.

^{page 35 note b} Query circa 1405.

^{page 35 note c} Keeper of the Red Chest circa 1500. See Gibbons’ Early Lincoln Wills, 198.

^{page 35 note a} He died in 1450.

^{page 36 note a} The will of dame Elizabeth Darcy, proved 16 Aug. 1412, is printed in Mr. Gibbons’ volume, p. 118.

^{page 37 note a} John of Gaunt died in 1399.

^{page 37 note b} John Crosby was treasurer, 1448—1477.

^{page 37 note c} William de Waltham held various prebendaries in Lincoln and York Minsters from about 1382, and died in 1418.

^{page 37 note d} 1405—1419.

^{page 41 note a} Vol. vi. 1289—92.

^{page 42 note a} After Heneage there were four other treasurers of Lincoln in his lifetime, Dr. London, Ri. Parker, Dr. Prynn, and Harry Lytherland. The last threw down his keys when the treasury was plundered in 1540, and has had no successor since.

^{page 42 note b} See Dugdale, , Monast. vi. 1286Google Scholar.

^{page 43 note a} Vol. i. pp. 52—56, 101—106, 138—141, 147—149.

^{page 44 note a} ‘cuis’ Ms.

^{page 44 note b} It appears from the Inventory of 1536 that this chalice and paten was given by Charles Booth bishop of Hereford, ob. 1535.

^{page 45 note a} This had contained relics of St. Thomas Cantilupe of Hereford and others.

^{page 46 note a} ‘cheaues,’ MS.

^{page 46 note b} ‘pare,’ MS.

^{page 47 note a} ‘have,’ MS.

^{page 47 note b} Matt. i. 17.

^{page 47 note c} John. i. 30.

^{page 48 note a} ‘interpretatuin,’ Matt. i. 23.

^{page 48 note b} Marc. i. 27.

^{page 48 note c} These three “pottes “in the inventory of 1536 are said to be marked with the letters “S. C. I.” standing I suppose for Sanctum chrisma, oleum Catechuinenorum, and oleum Infirmorum, respectively. The expression used to distinguish the three oils in Oculus Sacerdotis are “Crisma, et oleum pro Baptizandis et Infirmis,” which would suit Asfordfy's three letters. (De crisrnate.’)

William of Wykeham's chrismatory at New College has the letters O. C. V. which Mr. Micklethwaite, on consideration, has interpreted O[lewrn Sanctum], C[hrisma], and V[nctio pro Infirmis]. See Proceedings of Soc. Antiq. viii. 505, et alibi.

Oil, Cream, and Ointment are mentioned as the three oils in the Edwardian return from Beverley - Minster (Reliquary, iii. 163), whence we may infer, as Mr. Fallow observes, that Oleum, Crisma, Vnctio (or Vnguentum) are the words intended by the three letters on the New College vessels. The initials S. C. I. used at Lincoln, correspond with the terms used by Ælfric. See Rock's Church of our Fathers, iii. 2, 79. Holy oil (of exorcism), chrism, and sick men's oil.

^{page 49 note a} ‘Aptra’ MS.

^{page 49 note b} ‘Casue’ MS.

^{page 50 note a} ‘saueing ‘MS.

^{page 51 note a} See the legend of her sepulchre in Mandeville.

^{page 51 note b} Leg. ‘Custodis altaris.

^{page 51 note c} ‘Annisses’ MS.

^{page 52 note a} There were xviij in 1536.

^{page 52 note b} ‘Annisses ‘… ‘steles,’ MS.

^{page 53 note a} John de Grandison, bishop of Exeter 1327, was archdeacon of Notts (Ebor.) in 1310, held the prebend of Stoke in 1322, also Masham (Ebor) about 1309. A namesake was prebendary of Heydour in 1317 and died 1327–8. But neither of these is named by Hardy as archdeacon of Oxon.

^{page 54 note a} ‘Deacoñ,’ MS.

^{page 57 note a} ‘Mansers’ 1536.

^{page 57 note b} ‘Agnas,’ MS.

^{page 58 note a} ‘Mosses,’ 1536.

^{page 58 note b} ‘Milletts,’ MS.

^{page 59 note a} “Agnus,” MS.

^{page 59 note b} “Cliesable,” 1536.

^{page 61 note a} “Ex don. Dñæ Eliz. Dercy,” MS. 1536.

^{page 63 note a} “where,” MS.

^{page 63 note b} i. e., 1553.

^{page 64 note a} Vol. vi. pp. 1287–89.

^{page 72 note a} vi. pp. 1289–1292.

^{page 72 note a} One John Alcock was prebendary of Stow in Lindsey 1472—81, and of Scamblesby in 1482. Simon Alcock, prebendary of Brampton, 1451—58. John Alcock, bishop of Rochester, Worcester, and Ely, the founder of Jesus College, Cambridge, was in 1474 associated with bishop Rotherham of Lincoln as chancellor of England.

^{page 82 note a} There appears to be an error between “v “and “x,” either in the third item of this account, or in the total, as I have printed it.

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